Life as a Pack Rat

After 22 consecutive days of sleeping in a hotel bed, last night I was finally able to sleep in my own bed. Living in a hotel takes a lot out of you. When you check into a hotel there is always that little amount of excitement to get to your room and see what it's like. That excitement wears off after two or three weeks. Not having to make your own bed comes with a price.

When you stay in a hotel for an extended period of time, your whole perception of what is normal changes. After three weeks in a hotel, paying $12.99 for a meal seems normal. Eating every night in the hotel restaurant isn't always a riot either: "Table for one." At one point your realize you've had almost everything on the room service menu. Suddenly I found myself irritated when I come back to my room at noon and there are now fresh towels and the bed has not been made.

I even memorized all the channels on Marriott's cable television network.

Long story short: It's good to be home. And it's good to be back with my suga' mamma. Unfortunately I will be heading out Sunday for two more weeks in a hotel. More complaining coming your way...

Welcome to the world's most important Blog!

What is up RandBlair.com fans? (Both of you.) So I thought I'd take a crack at starting a blog. For those of you unfamiliar to the wonderful world wide web of blogs, blog stand for . . . well, I don't exactly know. But the whole gist of a blog is that I (and whoever else I allow - for example, my hot wife) can write witty and insightful comments and post them here. Then you, the viewing audience can respond. Then people can respond to your comments and then arguments ensue and things really start to get fun.

In review: This blog thing is similar to the running news section on my homepage except it will allow you to give me feedback.

So I'm sure you're all as excited as I am about this and would like to respond now, but you don't know how. I'm going to give you a step by step instruction of how (dumbed down to mom and dad's level of computer education.)

Step 1: Read the latest post
Step 2: Have a good laugh and think to yourself (Rand's such a witty guy!)
Step 3: Did you do step 2? If not - DO IT!
Step 4: Click on the 'comment' link at the bottom of the post.
Step 5: Type your comment in the right-hand box on the screen that pops up. Under 'Choose an identity, choose 'Other' and provide your name.
Step 6: Click 'Publish your comment' and you're done.